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Mr President, as draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs on the Kuhne report, I should like to take this opportunity to offer Mr Kuhne my warmest congratulations on the exceptionally difficult process which he has been through in order to be able to find a compromise between so many opinions in such a strong and excellent report.
I wish to touch on four points: security policy, in its present form, quite rightly focuses not on military means, but on all the other means which the European Union can use in order to promote the fight against all the causes of insecurity in Europe. One of these is terrorism, but it is not the only one. We have to be very careful, when preparing such a strategy, not to get carried away with the danger of the day and ignore so many others. Within this framework, it is very important, when we act abroad, that we act with respect for human rights. Guantanamo-type phenomena cannot be tolerated by the European Union. I emphasise this, because even the United States did not imagine a few years ago that it would be able to tolerate them, but we can see what is happening. I would prefer that we start applying the brakes now, rather than deal with this later, when we are not ready.
My second point is that, as Europeans, we need to promote democracy. Both the rapporteurs and the Commission quite rightly emphasised that the way in which democracy is promoted in Europe is very different from the way in which it is promoted by other major powers on Earth. Let us keep it that way, with the UN always with us. We cannot act outside its framework.
My third point is that Parliament must be kept informed of and must debate questions of foreign policy. It cannot keep being ignored in procedures which touch on fundamental rights, such as, for example, the famous PNR, the information given to the United States allegedly in order to fight terrorism. Parliament has instituted proceedings against the Commission on this and will, I hope, win its case.
My fourth and final point concerns the famous SITCEN, which is an important service. My committee does not know exactly how it acts, what the boundaries on its action are or how it collects information, but information and the collection of information and personal data are equally sensitive as far as this Parliament is concerned, irrespective of whether they are collected by SITCEN or by anyone else. The question of the principle of availability of information and its exchange are being discussed in my committee at this very moment. It has not reached a decision and I thank and congratulate Mr Kuhne for the importance which he attaches in his report to cooperation between our committees. The need to combat terrorism does not sanctify any means. We need to take serious account of this in this Chamber and in this Parliament."@en1
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